Baby's First BreyerFest Diorama

 So my Breyer collection only began last summer, on my first holiday to see my family in the US in about 11 years. I'd heard of Breyer before, and I'd always collected horse related ornaments and things, but I'd never seen a Breyer model in person before. I'm pretty sure my only knowledge of them came from the posts that the algorithm decides must grace your feed while scrolling Instagram...

I'll tell the full story of finding my first Breyers another time, but the thing I want to talk about today is Breyerfest! Thanks to the terrible awfulness of Covid, it's now a hybrid event, which means this broke Brit can attend online! Hell yeah! My tickets are ready, I've booked my time off work, I've been checking the Breyerfest Blog daily, and I'm just about set on my Special Run and Limited Edition wishlist. 

It was the announcement of the diorama contest that really hooked me though. I love getting crafty, I always have at least a couple different projects of some description on the go, and something about the concept of horse dioramas just immediately tickled my brain. I'll admit, 'Pop Culture That Pops' is a pretty broad theme title, but I came up with enough ideas that me and my coworker, E, couldn't stop giggling about that I just had to jump in! 

Abandoned diorama ideas include; Barbie and Ken ponies on rollerblades, Beatles ponies crossing Abbey Road, Jack the Ripper crime scene and detective ponies (until I realised that's more than 100 years ago, and also not family friendly as per contest guidelines,  oops), and that one scene burned into my mind from Lord of the Rings with all the pretty horses running across a river or something. (I've seen them all twice. I still only remember that one shot of those gorgeous horses. ) 

I don't know what the usual thing is with these diorama contests, but I'm going to try and document the making of, since my coworkers are all very curious about my ridiculous project, and I'll probably post that stuff after the deadline has passed. Suffice to say, Breyerfest has turned into a hyperfocus on a very niche diorama, and all the things that I need to learn to do instead of just assuming I can with unfounded confidence. At least until the online workshop timetable gets announced...

In the meantime, I'll go back to cutting up cardboard and buying so many teeny tiny supplies and hoping I can figure out how to use Milliput to customise models...something I've never done before...

Until next time

L x

Where to start...

 I've loved horses for as long as I can remember. Sure, some of the time that was more 'low-key' and in the background, but I'm having a full on Autistic Special Interest revival right now, and I'm fairly sure my coworkers are sick of me infodumping horse facts at them. 

'Horse' is a pretty broad category for me - not just real life horses fall under my extensive love! My Breyer model collection started last year, my obsession with Spirit has been going strong since it was released I was gifted a VHS of it, and I'm knee deep in fantasy books from the 80's that heavily feature magical horses. If something is horse related, I'm into it, and I want to know more, and please don't tell me about it during work hours because I won't do anymore work that day because the brain gremlins will take over and I will spend the rest of the day researching. Ooops. 

Do I have plans for this blog? To an extent. I have a vague list of post ideas. I mostly just wanted to make a space where I can enthusiastically share my thoughts and hopefully some people who Get It will share their enthusiastic thoughts back. 

I was delighted to discover that blogging is still a thing in 2024! This is probably the 5th blog I've ever had (the rest consigned to history, long deleted), and it was finding other active horse community bloggers that gave me the push to jump back in. So thanks to Breyer History Diva (Angela Gurdon) and Model Horse Madness (Fabala) for unknowingly encouraging the passion!

I'm sure things will change around on here as I remember how to use Blogger (It's changed in the last 11 years!) and I get things like new background photos uploaded and stuff like that. 

So for now, hello, come join the fun, and I'll see you next time

L x